{"id":54107,"date":"2023-02-27T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=54107"},"modified":"2023-02-25T15:10:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T14:10:58","slug":"fatima-ruhail-qaisar-danse-noire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=54107","title":{"rendered":"Fatima. Ruhail Qaisar. Danse Noire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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48-page book with photographic documentation, lyrics & additional context
Includes a download code for the album<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design by Niels Wehrspann
Translation work by Aastha Gupta, Sheraz Ahmed, Abdur Rahman Jerral, Tazyne Fatima, and Asad Sheikh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruhail Qaisar\u2019s Fatima<\/em> is a requiem for a dead future. The debut album release by the self-taught artist and producer screams with the trauma and decay of life in his hometown of Leh\u2014a high-altitude plateau region in the contested Ladakh area, extending from the Himalayan to the Kunlun Ranges. Qaisar absorbs this external condition of perpetual conflict between nation states into his internal life and resulting compositions, crossing sound art, noise music and experimental filmmaking. Hauntological drones, power electronics and convulsive post-industrial dissonance create an unnerving sense of fear, anger, and alienation. A broken transistor with a knob tuned to the abyss is bombarded with the cries and bitter laughter of a city\u2019s inhabitants tyrannized, not only by military occupation but the soft-power subjugation of the tourism industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following 2016\u2019s Ltalam<\/em> EP\u2014released under Qaisar\u2019s now-defunct Sister moniker\u2014Fatima<\/em> serves to transmit memories carried through the events, local mythos and personal recollections of growing up between the remote agrarian villages of Ladakh and the urban center of its joint capital\u2014Leh. The album was mixed between that area, and a DIY home studio in New Delhi, where the artist amalgamates his collected found sounds and field recordings into unrecognizable hybrids. Discordant pads and atmospherics on the dark ambient of Daily<\/em> Hunger<\/em> is disrupted by a crashing, pounding reverb, while contributor Elvin Brandhi shrieks towards its horrifying conclusion in the squelching, scratching sound of something soft being chewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An anti-lingual conjuring of metaphysical totems in music, Fatima is a seething chronicle of experience through the dynamics of riots, violence, colonization, unemployment, PTSD, and self-abuse. The cycling tumult of Namgang<\/em> hosts a menacing whisper that echoes the hissing fury of something like Einst\u00fcrzende<\/em> Neubauten<\/em> and Lydia Lunch\u2019s Thirsty<\/em> Animal<\/em>, while a trouncing distorted bass line on Fatima\u2019s Poplar<\/em> circles a voice that barks, The Western Civilization Show has been discontinued.<\/em>

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48-page book with photographic documentation, lyrics & additional contextIncludes a download code for the album Design by Niels WehrspannTranslation work by Aastha Gupta, Sheraz Ahmed, Abdur Rahman Jerral, Tazyne Fatima, and Asad Sheikh Ruhail Qaisar\u2019s Fatima is a requiem for a dead future. The debut album release by the self-taught artist and producer screams with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[8735,8737,8739,5471,8733,8731,5477,8734,8741,8732,8736,8075,8738],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54160,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54107\/revisions\/54160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}